ERICA Nivenia, longijlora. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anther.® basi bicornutae, exertae. Flores terminales, 
nmbellati, pedunculis longissimis. Corolla purpurea, 
pyramidata, costata, fauce parum arctata: laciniis revo¬ 
lutis, obliquis. Folia terna, late-linearia, oblusa, mar¬ 
gine pilis longissimis obsita, subtus sulcata, patentia. 
SufFrutex pygmaeus, ramosus. Rami et ramuli divari¬ 
cati, patentes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips two-horned at the base, without the blossom. 
Flowers terminate the branches in umbels, with very 
long footstalks. Blossom purple, of a pyramidal form, 
ribbed, a little narrowed at the mouth : the segments are 
oblique and re volute. Leaves by threes, broadly linear 
and blunt, and beset with long hairs at the edges, far¬ 
rowed beneath, and spreading. It is a dwarf shrub, 
very branching. The large and small branches are strag¬ 
gling, and spreading. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from March till June. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement and floral leaves. 
2. A blossom. 
-S. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, magnified. 
